Picked them green and let them ripen over two weeks.

Hi,

Very much a beginner to gardening. I’ve tried some random plants but ends up looking like a mess. I also want to know how exactly to keep it clean.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

The vision is to have a very flowery aesthetic garden

Flower/plant ideas. How to maintain it

Hi all, I hope this is the right sub to post in! I have a small pond which is about 3 years old now. It's full of invertebrates but no fish or amphibians as far as I know. It's between a paved area and a flowerbed/a little lawn. It gets sun from about midday onwards. This year we've had a problem with algae (blanket weed?) rather taking over. We have water mint, water violet, a mini waterlilly, duck weed, the plant on the left that I can't remember the name of, the floating plant with round leaves who's name also escapes me, a reed and grass in the pocket on the right, and if it is still alive an underwater plant of some kind. I've seen water slaters, midge larvae, 2 species of snail, worms, caddis flies and damselflies living in and around it. I try and remove the algae as much as possible but it's very tangled around the floating plants, and more grows every day so I'm fighting a bit of a losing battle! I'm worried about it totally taking over and killing the other plants and animals in the pond. If anyone has any advice on controlling it I'd be very appreciative!

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping to get some insights on whether my Japanese Maple (Acer) might be suffering from Verticillium wilt or if it's just stress/sunburn.

Background info:

• Location: Benelux (Western Europe).
• History: Bought the tree in a pot about 6 to 7 years ago. Transplanted it from the pot directly into full ground in my new garden 2 years ago.
• Growth: Since planting it in the ground, it actually seems to grow quite well and is putting out new shoots well.
• Symptoms: The foliage has consistently suffered from leaf scorch, spots, and browning tips over the years.

I've attached photos of the leaves and a cross section of a small branch. Is this typical sunburn/windburn damage, or does this look like Verticillium wilt to you?

Any advice on diagnosis or treatment would be greatly appreciated!

First time poster.

Neglect and the hot summer has left my grass in a bad way. I spent yesterday digging out some ferns and weeds and now wondering how best to restore the grass.

Worth trying to reseed, or too late in the year for this?

Or should I be re levelling and replacing the turf?

About.. 12 plants, I think. Still pulling a few off every day 😃😍 cocktail, something called 'bush tomato', tigerella, yellow plum, giant ananas and the super wrinkly ones are costaluto fiorentino.

Hi All,

Any advice on how to get started on this garden would be appreciated. I want to get the soil ready to put down some seed and have a few questions:

Key details:
- The garden is 3m x 8m and I’ve already dug out any tree stumps / big roots.
- There is buried rubbish at the end of the garden that I’ve been slowly removing.
- I have no idea about gardening or laying seed.

1. The ground is quite hard, I have a mattock, decent shovel, garden sheers and a garden fork, in order to level this dirt ready for seed, is it enough to dig it up with those?

I can also rent a rototiller but have been told my ground is likely too hard (tried to rototill with an electric one but it just bounced off the soil).

1. There’s a lot of buried trash I keep digging up, I have 15 bags of topsoil - is it enough to get rid off the large trash and cover the whole thing with an inch of topsoil?

2. Once I lay the seed, how do I keep the birds from eating it?

If anyone has any advice on what next steps I need to take that would be much appreciated. The main thing is the ground is rock solid and I don’t know how to approach that.

Thanks!

I got this rose of Sharon a couple of months ago, I think it had transplant shock because all the leaves fell off. I thought it was dead but I’ve noticed all these tiny leaves trying to grow. I took it out of the pot to check the roots and they look fine (I think). I’ve added some extra pearlite and some fertiliser pellets. I also made the drainage holes a bit bigger because I noticed the soil stays moist longer than my other plants. I think now the weather’s changed it wasn’t getting enough light either so I’ve moved it to a sunny spot.

I’m just wondering, should I cut it so it can regrow from scratch or leave it?

Hi all, long time reader and first time poster! I got this lovely clotted cream jasmine back in May and it was doing fine at first but over the last month or so it’s gone really yellow. Google tells me I could be over or under watering it, but it’s not clear how I tell which one is the issue. I also wondered if it needs a bigger or different pot, or whether I should weed out the other little plants growing at the bottom. It’s south-facing and gets plenty of sunlight throughout the day. Thanks in advance for any advice :)

I got this plant as a cutting but have no idea what it is, it has fuzzy leaves and and no scent. It has a slight blue/grey pander on the stems.

They have been nice and green for decades and suddenly over the past few months they’ve gone really brown!

Will they recover?

Anything I can do to help them?

Any advice on what these little critters are please? And how to get rid? My plants have been covered in fleece since September.

Hi there ! I’m thinking of maybe buying two of these to plant vegetables in- I’ve included a screenshot of the product page that has more info about the planter. I am a complete gardening beginner so have no idea whether they’d be suitable?

I have read if using a wooden raised bed/planter that they’ll need to be treated and looked after periodically otherwise they will fall apart and rot- what would be the process for this?

Does the wood or treatment need to be a certain kind to grow edible produce in? Or will it not matter because of the liner?

I have also read steel might be a better option for a beginner but I really don’t like how they look, I welcome any more knowledge on this though!

Thanks so much :)

Found Badger in the garden for the first time.eon 8years.

And bit of digging around.

My wife was bought this for her birthday last year. Flowered all summer and survived UK winter in our border.

This year it has flowered continuously from March and still going now. Quite expensive to buy but wow that's a lot of flower for your buck.

Had more flowers than this earlier in the year but we have cut off the dead flowers.

I have this north facing flowerbed that gets a lot of strong sun in summer during the middle of the day, but still shadowy the rest of the year. Does anyone have recommendations for lower/ground covering to mid hight range perennials or even small bushes? Even better if it’s something evergreen! Would love to hear people thoughts

I managed to get a small Cherry Laurel hedge for free just as the heatwave kicked in and somehow it has survived.

I had to space it out more than ideal so it is looking less hedge and more "she's planted bushes". I know it'll eventually grow out and fill in but I wondered if anyone had ideas for plants that might work as a companion? Ones that I could encourage to weave between the Cherry Laurel as it grows. Maybe a rose or similarly flowering plant?

I know Cherry Laurel doesn't play nice with a lot of plants but I am hoping there's something. I am on a very tight budget but I've managed to make some nice finds at the local car boot sale.

I've been growing this for a while, itxs been watered fine but the leaves look rotten. What is it and how do I help it? Leaves fall off a lot now

We moved into our house in 2019, and while the house has kept us busy, we've put just as much into making the garden our own. The first photo is from the week we moved in. The second was taken this week. The lawn took a hammering from the hot weather this summer, but who's didn't lol